The Power of Now
A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
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Eckhart Tolle has emerged as one of today's most inspiring teachers. In The Power of Now, already a worldwide bestseller, the author describes his transition from despair to self-realization soon after his 29th birthday. Tolle took another ten years to understand this transformation, during which time he evolved a philosophy that has parallels in Buddhism, relaxation techniques, and meditation theory but is also eminently practical. In The Power of Now he shows readers how to recognize themselves as the creators of their own pain, and how to have a pain-free existence by living fully in the present. Accessing the deepest self, the true self, can be learned, he says, by freeing ourselves from the conflicting, unreasonable demands of the mind and living "present, fully, and intensely, in the Now."
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Bibliographic source: Open Library- Who wrote The Power of Now?
The Power of Now is by Eckhart Tolle. The catalogue records its first publication in 1997. A later edition may have a different publication date on its copyright page.
- How long is The Power of Now?
The catalogue records 224 pages for a representative edition. Pagination varies with the publisher, format, type size and translation, so check the edition you intend to read.
